10,000 officers to be inducted in police force: CM Sindh

2,500 of the new police officers will be appointed in Karachi.

KARACHI: Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah on Monday announced that the ban on inducting new police officers has been lifted, Express News reported.

He said that 10,000 new police officers will be inducted in Sindh, adding that 2,500 of them will be appointed in Karachi.

The new appointed police officers will work as Special Force officers and will be posted in those areas of Karachi where there has been an increase in terrorist activity and target killings.

Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had advised the chief minister to life the ban on appointment of new officers.

IG Sindh

According to sources, three names have been suggested for the position of Inspector General (IG) Sindh by the federal government to the Sindh government, Express News reported.

The names of Mushtaq Sakhera, Captain (retired) Liaquat and Mir Zubair Muhammad have been suggested.

The position of the top cop in the province has been vacant for almost a month since former IG Sindh Shahid Nadeem Baloch retired from the post on February 20.

Additional Inspector General of Crime Investigation Department (CID) Iqbal Mehmood provisionally took over reigns of the Sindh IG after Baloch’s retirement.

Previously, the Sindh government suggested former Karachi police chief Iqbal Mehmood and former Sindh police chief Fayyaz Leghari for the post but the federal government said that DIG Farooq Ameen Qureshi and National Highways and Motorway Police Inspector General Zulfiqar Ahmed Cheema are being considered as Baloch’s successors.